Singapore+-+CIP

**Done by Samuel Tan**
CIP nurtures our students to become __socially responsible__ and develops their __sense of belonging and commitment to our country__. Through participating in community work, students also learn the __value of service__ and develop __lasting friendships__ with one another.

Service Learning is an approach where CIP participants not only serve the community, but also learn to __identify with the needs of the community__ and to reflect on their own experience in working with the community so that they have a better understanding and appreciation of what it involves..

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=__Purpose and actions by some schools__=


 * Greenview Seconday School **

CIP in Greenview is typically conducted through activities within the school such as __peer group tutoring__, __maintaining the school environment__, or __making handicrafts to raise funds for the needy__. Other activities may extend to the wider community whereby students may perform duties in __public libraries__ or __welfare homes__ such as homes for delinquents, orphanages, shelters for abused children and so forth, __teach computer skills__ to senior citizens, or __enhance the environment__ through adopting a beach or a park which __they will maintain and beautify__. 

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**Anglican High School**

The CIP programme is designed such that through their four years in Anglican High School, students have the opportunities to __interact and serve different groups of people__ - children with special needs, elderly folks, the sick and people of different races. Besides serving people, students are also given the opportunity to __care for the environment__ through a recycling project and to __contribute to the different charitable organisations__ by raising funds for them. We are also looking into __creating a sense of social enterprise__ in our students by getting them to raise funds through enterprising ways and donating the profits to charitable organizations of their choice.

The CIP programme at AHS **//goes beyond the shores of Singapore//**. An overseas service learning project to Chiang Rai is conducted annually with the added aims of NE and __developing a global outlook in our students__. Students in these overseas projects usually __return with a broadened outlook and a heightened appreciation for Singapore__.

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**Singapore Sports School**

The philosophy behind the School's Community Involvement Programme (CIP) is that __service learning__ will provide experiences that __lay the foundation for intellectual, moral and civic growth in the pupils__.

The School aims to __provide authentic contexts__ within which pupils will be able to apply what they have learnt and so, better __understand the importance of giving back to the community__.

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**Catholic High School**

As part of __National Education__, all students will be involved in CIP through a progression of school-based, neighbourhood-based and community-based projects. The focus of the CIP projects is on __service learning__. All students are expected to perform at least 6 hours of Community Involvement each year as stipulated by MOE. The number of CIP hours performed will be recorded in the Pupil Management System and reflected in the final result slip of each student. Form teachers will monitor their students' involvement in CIP.

At the same time, the school aims to __nurture active student leaders__ instead of passive participants in CIP. Students who have a passion for CIP are __given strong support in class-initiated CIP projects__. CCA groups are encouraged to mount their own CIP projects. Students are also given ample opportunities to __attend external CIP workshops__ or __participate in the annual Youth Volunteer Involvement Programme__ organised by the Student Volunteer Corps of the National Council of Social Service etc.

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**Hwa Chong Institution**
In order to achieve the CIP objectives, students will be __exposed to different types of needs in the community__, for e.g. environmental conservation, elderly, disabled, children etc systematically. This will __increase their awareness of the needs in the community__ and in turn, __sensitize them to the needs__. The planning and coordination will be done and __carried out chiefly at the consortium level__.


 * CCAs** will continue to support the consortiums' CIP efforts by organizing CIP activities that leverage on the students' skills and abilities acquired through the respective CCAs. For e.g. students trained in first aid should be deployed to help out at community events that require such services.

Every consortium currently has a Service Learning Club (SLC). Students who are in the SLC will form the core group to support the consortiums in organizing CIP activities. The SLC will be a good platform to train students to carry out SL projects and organize CIP activities for fellow students. From: []

Purpose of CIP includes:

 * creating a sense of social enterprise
 * developing a global outlook in our students (usu. Overseas CIP)
 * laying the foundation for intellectual, moral and civic growth in the pupils
 * nurturing active student leaders
 * increasing their awareness of the needs in the community, sensitizing them to the needs

Actions done include:

 * In School
 * Peer Tutoring
 * maintaining the school environment
 * having a Service-Learning club to propagate CIP


 * Outside School
 * performing duties in public libraries and welfare homes
 * //teaching computer skills to senior citizens//
 * adopting a beach or park to maintain and beautify it


 * Beyond Shores
 * having a service learning project to Chiang Rai (Anglican High School)

=__Videos of students doing CIP__=

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=__Assessment of CIP__=

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12. Over the years, **CIP** has evolved to provide increasingly meaningful experiences for our students through more student-initiated and student-led **CIP** activities. For example, the Service-Learning pedagogy, which was introduced in 2001, starts with the identification of genuine community needs by students. They then proceed to devise plans to meet these needs. Today, about __75 per cent__ of primary and secondary schools and all our Junior Colleges and the Centralised Institute employ the Service-Learning approach to varying extents in their **CIP**.

13. Another change in the **CIP** was made in 2005, when the 6-hour **CIP** requirement for JC students was removed. This was done to encourage students to __focus on the quality of their community involvement__ and to __want to do so out of a genuine desire to contribute__. I am heartened that the level of participation of the older students is still very high. __Over 99 per cent__ of JC students are still actively participating in CIP even though there is __no longer a mandatory requirement__.

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-- Speech made by **Mr LUI TUCK YEW, MINISTER OF STATE, MINISTRY OF EDUCATION on 12 March 2007**


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 * What Have We Achieved in NE since 1997?**

9. I would like to highlight in particular the __positive results__ from our **CIP** programme. Since the implementation of the Community Involvement Programme in 1998, many schools have moved from a ready-made approach where **CIP** activities are planned en masse for the whole school. Now we have a lot more teacher-initiated and student-led **CIP** activities. This has become more evident since the Service-Learning approach was introduced in 2001 to allow for more student ownership of **CIP**. Now, we have about 55% of primary schools, 70% of secondary schools and 95% of JCs using the Service-Learning approach to carry out **CIP**.

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26. The students are keen to do so. This is why, when we lifted the mandatory requirement of 6 hours of **CIP** for the junior colleges, we were confident that **CIP** would remain an active part of JC life. For 2005 alone, __more than 92%__ of JC students had participated in **CIP** and __just under 40%__ initiated a **CIP** project.

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28. I think we have __made headway in developing the spirit of voluntarism__ amongst these students - students who had __undergone 6 years of CIP since it was launched__.

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-- Speech made by **MR THARMAN SHANMUGARATNAM, MINISTER FOR EDUCATION on 24 August 2006

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__**Summary**__
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 * Majority of students (from primary school, secondary school and junior college) are doing CIP, mostly via SL.
 * JC students still do CIP despite abolishment of mandatory 6-hour requirement.
 * Spirit of volunteerism is developing

=**Conclusion: CIP is a relative __success__**=